Pandemic

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Rental markets in key cities across China have basically recovered throughout the month of August, including an increase in the overall transaction volume for Beijing, a report showed.  The trading volume of Beijing’s rental market continued to accelerate in August, finishing with a 12.2% increase, month-on-month. Not only did the…

Remember when renting a stranger's home seemed sketchy? Today, though, we're all about that Airbnb lifestyle, and way more aspects of the peer-to-peer sharing economy. (Rover, and Uber, and TaskRabbit, oh my!)But what about sharing someone's pool? Enter: Swimply, an online platform launched in 2018 that connects owners of private pools…

Many moms in Saskatchewan face limited options for working during the pandemic when they have young children.Author of the article:Nykole King  •  Saskatoon StarPhoenixPublishing date:Sep 01, 2020  •   •  4 minute readLindsay Sanderson is planning to home-school her five-year-old son William Stene instead of sending him to school this fall,…

Accenture's investments in cloud, platforms, and analytics and AI proved essential in the company's quick moves to stay on top of pandemic-driven change.There are plenty of stories now about how organizations, big and small, quickly made the decision to pivot their office employees to a work-from-home status. These organizations may…

Yesterday, I published images captured from space revealing the scope and intensity of 2020's burning season — from Siberia to the western United States. In this second part of "A Pandemic of Wildfire," I'm focusing not on the flames but on the smoke.It has travelled far and wide, causing much…

CBS News' Mark Strassmann reports from Atlanta on the ongoing impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. Read More

The blaze captured in the false-color satellite image above is just one small part of a much bigger wildfire, which is just one among hundreds that have scorched Siberia since winter ice and snow melted in May.Meanwhile, half a world away, a brutally hot August in the western United States…

More than 10,000 Covid-19 conspiracy theorists who believe the virus is a hoax have gathered in London's Trafalgar Square to protest against lockdown restrictions and vaccination programmes.Demonstrators in the 'Unite for Freedom' rally - which started at noon in the capital - are calling for an 'end to Government lies' and the…

Wuhan, Ground Zero for the COVID-19 pandemic and the Chinese city hardest hit by the coronavirus, will reopen all its schools and kindergartens on Tuesday, local authorities said. Senior high school students are seen inside a classroom in Wuhan (Photo: Reuters) Updated: Aug 29, 2020, 11:23 PM IST Wuhan, Ground…